Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 31 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,168,615
@1,168,558 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC) > No it's a lot of people with weird genders
So... not much different than Minichan.
@OP
No matter what Elon Musk does, I think he's just signing up to be the next public punching bag. The left will blame him for confusing trolling and pseudoscience for free speech. The right-wing oppression narrative will continue apace as tales of deleted tweets and shadowbans elicit jowl-shaking rage from alt-right neckbeards and tech-illiterate senators.
People will just have a new public figure to blame for whatever imagined injustice they feel was visited on them. And that person just paid 44 billion dollars for the privilege.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 34 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,168,654
@1,168,647 (F)
An account was tracking his personal flights via publicly available flight radar info and Elon offered to pay $5,000 for the guy to stop tweeting about it lol. Didn't even offer 5 figures! What a cheapskate.
Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 19 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,168,657
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Well that is a sort of free speech. People can say whatever they want unless Elon doesn't like it. Can you really fault that?
Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,678
@1,168,647 (F)
Apparently he would dmca takedown videos of Tesla's malfunction, and supposedly he's used NDAs to be described as the founder of a couple of his companies
Anonymous F double-posted this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,723
@1,168,654 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU) @1,168,657 (M)
Cool. An example of Elon showing he cares about free speech; somebody created a bot that collected and published information about his whereabouts and he didn’t have that person killed, he didn’t dox that person, he didn’t have the police harass that person … he just said “please stop”
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,758
@1,168,723 (F)
Paying someone to stop speaking is probably not something someone who cares strongly about free speech would do. He doesn't get credit for not committing felonies or worse, violating the Twitter ToS.
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
How is trying to pay hush money to someone not anti free speech??? Have I entered the Twilight Zone? It's ok to just admit that Elon doesn't actually believe in the principles of free speech when they come into conflict with his life directly. Everyone's a hypocrite at the end of the day and he's not special in that regard.
We'll need to wait and see what he does with Twitter. My guess is he'll initially be very active but then quickly realize running the site is a tremendous pain in the ass and delegate it to either people who have been there awhile, in which case things will continue as normal, or weird zealots who tank the site and send it down the shitter. Either is fine with me because minichan can just pick up the slack as the world's premiere free speech forum.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,759
@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Free speech is not arresting someone, banning someone,or hurting someone for their speech. It isn't anti free speech to ask someone not to say something
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 19 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,763
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Paying someone to not speak is consistent with respect for the principles of free speech? Idk that seems plainly wrong to me. I guess they call it the marketplace of ideas because wealthy people can own it all for a pittance, lol.
Anonymous J replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,767
Kook is right, it’s a voluntary exchange. Hush money doesn’t restrict speech unless both sides agree to. It’s not like Elon is murdering, banning, or censoring the guy if he doesn’t take the $5000
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,801
@1,168,766 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC) @1,168,768 (J) @1,168,773 (𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕞)
Again this is not secret and not stalking. It's a guy using a bot to take publicly available flight radar information and post it to twitter. There is no trust violation or anything like that here.
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
I agree in general. I personally don't really care strongly about him. I think Tesla and SpaceX are cool. I think The Boring Company and Neuralink are probably two big failures in the making. I also think he has spent so much time on Twitter that he thinks he can run it better than the people currently doing it and that seems unlikely to me. The problem with fabulously wealthy people like him is they do not have people they listen to who can tell them when they're getting in over their head. This is one of those scenarios.
Anonymous J replied with this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,804
@1,168,801 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Paying someone to not post something that isn’t a secret or stalking doesn’t change the underlying fact that it’s a voluntary exchange and therefore not anti free speech
Elon is not somehow forcing the Twitter guy to stop posting. In fact, the Twitter guy is still posting I believe
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,806
@1,168,802 (N)
Thank you nethideaway copypasta guy. Your contribution is totally useless as usual. @previous (J)
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here but I think paying someone to not tweet things about you is not something that a free speech absolutist like Musk purports to be would do. Once he takes over Twitter (assuming the deal goes through) we'll see how consistently he applies these principles. My guess will be that all speech won't treated the same but we'll need him to fuck up before other people agree apparently.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,812
@1,168,801 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
That doesn't make it anti free speech because he isn't forcing anyone or preventing anyone from saying or even doing something
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,813
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Were just talking in circles at this point, but a world in which wealthy people buy the silence of poor people is not a world with free speech. There's a literally a price on it lol.
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,820
@1,168,813 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Are you operating under the assumption that “free speech” means free as in ‘gratis’???
Also, in the United States the courts have ruled that money is speech, so offering $5000 to stop publishing one’s DOX is literally the same as saying “please stop”
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,823
@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
He didn’t threaten anyone about losing stock options, that is just what would have happened! He educated his workers about that fact
Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 50 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,829
@1,168,823 (F) @1,168,825 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
But even in the 90's, again with just some mild googling about unions and stock options, there's nothing about unions specifically that would make them lose their stock options, the union in question just has to include stock options in their negotiation.
Dead !Pool..v42s double-posted this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,833
@1,168,830 (F)
So then do what them unionized Amazon workers did and start their own union? Is it a unions fault that a company would refuse stock options in lieu of other compensation in order to deter a union being formed?
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,834
@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Unions act against the interests of the employees. Period. Is it the union’s fault? I guess not, since they’re always voted into place!
Elon did nothing wrong by tweeting that Unions never negotiate for stock options! It’s true!
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 years ago, 48 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,836
@1,168,828 (F)
Paying someone to not spread publicly available information is actually reducing the amount of public speech happening. I don't trust anyone who would do that and then talk about how much they value the free flow of information because well...they don't.
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 20 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,837
Also it’s hilarious that someone has brought up this example of Elon’s speech being wrongly limited by the government while claiming Elon is anti-free-speech
Anonymous F double-posted this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,838
@1,168,835 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Mr.Ortiz was fired from Tesla for what was essentially corporate espionage, that judge was an R-word. Tesla employees don’t want to unionize, anyway; it would have happened by now if they truly thought they could get a “better deal” through unionization. There is no union-busting happening at the company!
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,839
@1,168,836 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
I can't believe that you consider paying someone to not announce where you fly as being anti free speech. Especially if you so don't consider banning people from social media as anti free speech
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,840
@1,168,836 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
He had an open discussion about it on his twitter account, he outlined the reasons it was a bad idea, and dangerous to have this twitter bot running… he offered the person running the bot a sum of money as a way of saying “cute, but please stop”, and he hasn’t filed legal action or done anything to harm the person running the dangerous twitter bot…
sounds like it was all in the realm of free speech, Mark
> Again this is not secret and not stalking. It's a guy using a bot to take publicly available flight radar information and post it to twitter.
Does data have to be secret, in order for it to be stalking to publicize it? Does context not matter in the publication of data? Is it not possible to harass a person by using public data?
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,851
@previous (G)
But what does this have to do with Trump supporters being free speech absolutists? Trump is not connected to this current situation at ll
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,853
@1,168,848 (𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕞)
Imagine if someone finds out your complete daily routine. Where you eat, where you work etc, and puts it on social media. And when you try and pay them to stop,people call you anti free speech
> Imagine if someone finds out your complete daily routine. Where you eat, where you work etc, and puts it on social media. And when you try and pay them to stop,people call you anti free speech
Anonymous M replied with this 3 years ago, 27 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,861
I think that Anon F and Kook are making Elon out to be a lot more rational and level-headed than he really is. There was that issue a while ago when he threw a tantrum over that diver insulting his useless mini-submarine, there was that thing where he got mad at the media for being critical of his cars and he fantasized about making a website called "Pravda" to shame them in response.
My point is, that I think that his reaction to that Twitter bot was an emotional knee-jerk more than anything, he's known to have strong and disproportionate reactions to things. And Fake anon is correct to point out that his handling of that situation is good reason to expect that his attitude to free speech may not be consistent.
Anonymous M replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,869
@1,168,864 (S)
Yes, this is a man we can trust to champion free speech. The guy who hires a PI to try to discredit a guy who insulted him.
@previous (F)
This really isn't the same as the Twitter bot and it actually hurts your case. Another example of him throwing a tantrum and trying to shut down someone saying something harmless.
Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 13 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,870
@1,168,838 (F)
It looks like he was fired for organizing union stuff on company time, but ok.
As someone sitting on the board of the company people are considering unionizing, it isn't considered union busting to say the board, that he sits on, wouldn't agree to stock options through a union negotiation?
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 14 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,872
@1,168,870 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
He was fired for posting screenshots of employee data from Tesla’s internal systems onto a public Facebook page. Perfectly justified firing
Anonymous F double-posted this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,873
@1,168,870 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Tesla employees already have stock options… that would have gone away if they unionized because some greedy union-operating corporate entity would come in and automatically throw away that benefit on purpose, and in exchange for nothing. It is a tale as old as, well, labor unions
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 46 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,168,877
@previous (G)
well all of his detractors just post the same 4 articles over and over again alongside shit-tier takes. I’ll admit it when I see him do anything seriously corrupt
Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 34 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^][v]#1,169,085
@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Why are you mad about the fact that he is a co-founder?
He was there from the earliest days (less than 8 months after incorporation papers were filed), oversaw the design and production of their first product and is legally allowed to call himself a co-founder. what's the problem, sis?